Polish film director Agnieszka Holland and the American-Polish journalist and publicist Anne Applebaum have been honoured with high state distinctions by Ukraine for their work on portraying the truth about The Great Famine of 1932-33.
The losses of Ukraine from the Holodomor of 1932-1933 are comparable to the losses in World War II. These are pages of Ukrainian history that cannot be forgotten, as stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the events commemorating the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine near the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide.
“With this film I want to break the silence in Israel on the Holodomor,” said Israeli actor, director, and producer Dim Amor in an interview with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. The film is being shot...
[Editor’s note: More than 500 leaders from Israel, the United States, Europe and Ukraine participated in the inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum held in the Ukrainian capital from 5-7 May 2019. Carl Gershman, President of the...
While conducting research on the history of Ukrainians in Canada during the interwar years, Jars Balan discovered a series of powerfully written articles by a forgotten Canadian Jewish journalist, named Rhea Clyman, describing the horrors...
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Anne Applebaum explores a seminal event in Ukrainian history – the Holodomor. Still little-known internationally, the Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) refers to the...
Researchers of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 continue to overlook a book that was written by Mendel Osherowitz (b. 1884, Trostianets–d. 1965, New York), a Jewish American writer and journalist who wrote in Yiddish. His work,...
The documentary film Hunger for Truth tells the story of Canadian-Jewish journalist Rhea Clyman. Although little known today, Clyman reached international acclaim in her day for her coverage of the Soviet Union, including the 1932-33...
President Petro Poroshenko and his wife Maryna Poroshenko have honored memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine.
The historian Andriy Portnov is at the Encounters studio today. Our conversation is pegged to the annual roundtable “Ukrainian Society and the Memory of the Holocaust: Scholarly and Educational Aspects,” which took place on 27...
Ukrainians and Jews have lived as neighbours for centuries, creating and sharing enduring cultures that continue to inform their identities today. Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is proud to present Part 1 of an integrated narrative of these two peoples in the belief that there is much to be gained by viewing their historical experience together, in all its complexity.
Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:
The 'Encounter' prize aims to build on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in literature and nonfiction. The Prize will be awarded annually to the most influential work in literature and nonfiction (in alternate years) that fosters Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping solidify Ukraine's place as a multi-ethnic society and giving truth to the motto, "Our stories are incomplete without each other."
The goal of the richly illustrated catalogue is to present an integrated narrative that looks at the experience of these two peoples together, in all its complexity — through periods of crisis, as well as long stretches of normal co-existence and multifaceted cultural interaction from antiquity to 1914.
